136 Quotes by Saul Alinsky

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara - are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.

Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.